Readers react to Facebook gun posting

For starters, readers of the Macomb Daily Facebook page are honest. No “guess-what-I’m thinking”games, nosiree; Our readers tell it like it is. Macomb Daily Facebook readers are also bright, witty, usually kind, insightful, articulate -- and funny. Very, very funny.

Don’t think so? Take a peak at a few of the 90 plus responses to a recent post in which we asked Facebook readers to say something about the following photograph. You can read the entire post by”Liking”us on Facebook.

* Paula Lancaster Lupi “I honestly don’t see anything wrong with it. Not everyone is psycho crazy. Many people just collect guns. He could be saying that he has the means to protect his family.

* Stephen O Livingston: “Nice! That looks like one expensive family! That is a lot of mouths to feed...lol”

* Michael Lesich: “I guess he would be an “open carry” kind of guy.

* Al Basil Sr. “Must of had a ‘shotgun’ wedding too ?”

* Rose Zook I’ve got no problem with any of them except the assault rifles and handguns. Those were designed strictly to kill people.

* Nora Wilke. “First thought...the “bad guys” won’t mess with whoever is driving that truck. Second thought...if someone tried to rob his house or family they wouldn’t make it out alive. Third thought...there are people making comments on here that really make me not want to read anything else. Hey DA, if someone broke into your house, and grabbed your wife or daughter, would you offer him a cup of coffee and try to bargain with him? Or just sit back and know that most people are good and he has had some back luck, and will not hurt you, let him take the “stuff”. That’s what I thought...you are a DA !

* Tina Sparks Gladstone: “I see nothing wrong with owning guns, but I feel sorry for him if that is the only family he has.

* Don Garriott: “Police forces around the world use AK-47’s, in Iraq, every household is allowed a full automatic AK-47 to defend themselves with.....they are very good defense weapons...”

* Jackie Wisniewski: “What is this world coming to?????????????”

* Jessie Robb Kanehl: “A .22 killed my stepson. A bullet is a bullet. The difference is whose hand it is in.”

* Jeff Hering nothing wrong with it at all. Last I checked, it was a freedom we were allowed as Americans. You don’t like it? Don’t look at it. It’s funny how if someone is stabbed to death or killed by a drunk driver, we don’t call for a ban on knives or cars, doesn’t really make sense. And for everyone calling for more gun laws or gun bans, don’t you realize that criminals don’t obey them to begin with?

* Dylan Farenger there are differences between a knife/car and a gun. people don’t stockpile knives in order to orchestrate mass killings, nor do people buy fully automatic cars in order to kill as many people as possible. While the right to bear arms is a fundamental one, there seems to be a certain lack of common sense being applied. No one needs 30 guns to protect their family or to hunt.

as for the “criminals don’t obey laws” argument, how do you feel about drunk driving? the use/sales of crack and other drugs? to say that laws and preventative measures should not be in place to protect innocent lives from excessive force, on the basis that “well, they’re going to do it anyway!” is absolutely absurd.

* Patrick Underwood I enjoy many shooting sports, but I don’t consider these tools as my family. I wouldn’t post this on my truck, if for no other reason it may encourage some one to break in (quite a valuable collection). As to the comments about the quantity of firearms one owns, if you were an artist would you own only one box of 8 crayons? You might also enjoy pastels, water colors or even clay. If you are an athelete, you may own walking shoes, running shoes, soccer cleats, baseball cleats or even football cleats. When I go rabbit hunting, I don’t use the same tool I would use for deer hunting. If i go to shoot sporting clays I use a different tool. Sometimes I like to use tools similar to our forefathers and use use a black powder firearm. With regard to autos not being used for mass killings, I seem to recall a rental truck, fertilizer and fuel being used to kill many.

* Terri Joseph: “If you want a gun for hunting, fine. But if you need an Automatic assault rifle to do the job, well then, it’s time to take up a new sport because you’re a puss. If you want a gun so you can protect your family, then that means you’re keeping that gun fully loaded and unlocked in whatever drawer or cabinet. In that case, perhaps you should consider what you’re family needs protection from is your idea of safety. Yes, part of gun safety is to make sure your family understands how to use a gun and respect it, but it also means keeping the guns locked in a cabinet and the ammunition kept in a separate place, also locked. So you want to protect yourself from someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night while you sleep? Try investing in an alarm system. But anyone that has to have 16+ different types of gun is just a person that really gets off on owning a lot of guns, nothing more. At least he or she will be ready when the government calls him or her to bear arms and join the militia.”

* Patricia Thompson-Lund: “The right to bear arms is an American right protected by the constitution. PERIOD!! There will always be crazy people who will abuse just about everything, But to say that it’s a Republican is just plain stupid.”

* Patsy Breaux Cantor: “You can put whatever you want on your vehicle. However if I was looking for a gun to steal, I’d sure know what house to try first.”

* Thomas J Broniak: “Maybe this person is preparing for the zombie apocalypse.”